It’s not AI that will replace you. It’s your competition using AI that will. ~Jensen Huang
Find a need and fulfill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people. ~A. G. Gaston
It always looks impossible until it's done. ~Nelson Mandela
If you’re creating a company, it’s important to limit the number of miracles in series. Start with something that’s the most doable and then expand from there. ~Elon Musk
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ~Alexander Graham Bell
God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear. ~Ruby Dee
The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. ~Amelia Earhart
Software being "Done" is like lawn being "Mowed". ~Jim Benson
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. ~Mark Twain
Everybody told me no at first, including my wife. I turned the nos into yeses and the disadvantages into advantages. ~John H. Johnson
The best way to make dreams come true is to wake up. ~Mae C. Jemison
You are already familiar with the 80/20 rule. In the late 1800s an Italian economist discovered that 80% of the wealth in his country was owned by 20% of the people. More recently we find that the 80/20 rule applies in other areas of our lives. Professional service firms find that eighty percent of the revenue comes from twenty percent of the clients. Merchants find that eighty percent of sales comes from twenty percent of the products. Winners at the very top of any field tend to win by a large margin.
A skillfully executed business strategy is one path to victory. Many strategy books will tell business owners how to win at the expense of the competition, how to take market share away from the competition, and so on.
The book Blue Ocean Strategy proposes a non-typical path to victory over the competition. According to the authors, following a blue ocean strategy will make your competition irrelevant.
Special thanks to the organizers of MagicRuby and Aloha Ruby for inviting me to present RubyMotion at their respective conferences. Confreaks recorded video at the Aloha Ruby event.
The fizzbuzz sample code can be found on GitHub. Slides are on SpeakerDeck.
Should you use RubyMotion or Objective-C for iOS development? That depends…
RubyMotion is a Mac application that lets developers write iOS apps in Ruby. It’s possible to create the user interface for the app entirely within RubyMotion or with a Ruby gem like Teacup. But what about devs who prefer Interface Builder?
This article will show how to use Xcode’s Interface Builder to create a basic UI for a RubyMotion application.
Some organizations are innovative, while others are just lucky. How can you tell the difference? I would submit that longevity is a great divider between true innovators and those who are just lucky. An organization that generates new ideas time after time breaks the statistical rules that define luck. These are the organizations worthy of study.
Some organizations are innovative, while others are just lucky. How can you tell the difference? I would submit that longevity is a great divider between true innovators and those who are just lucky. An organization that generates new ideas time after time breaks the statistical rules that define luck. These are the organizations worthy of study.